#pallore

[elosdiary]

-Laura Imai Messina, Il Giappone a colori

[ocelotlesbian]

dead boy diagram.... just trying to make sure i'm drawing him adequately cadaver-looking ^_^

[wickedcriminal]

Spirit Tracks swap ayoo✨️

I like to think that Link was part Lokomo, so he could have feasibly hosted Malladus if Zelda managed to get away. That's not to say Zelda's in the clear— Cole and Byrne are still actively looking for her— but Link will work as a temporary solution. At least until his body burns up.

Hope Zelda's good under pressure; she's on a bit of a time crunch.

Redraw of these from 2021!

[lyssq]

If I had a penny for every book about a boy of noble birth who watched his whole family be killed in front of him and narrowly avoided death himself, ran away and hid in an orphanage before someone unaware of his true identity recruits him into the regime that murdered his family (said regime presents the idea of everyone being equal while in reality being deeply flawed) and now has to work alongside people who would likely kill him if they knew who he really was, I’d have two pennies, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

[keplercryptids]

[image description, copied & shortened from alt text: a digital drawing of four characters from my sci-fi ttrpg campaign, standing in a row. from left to right: Noci, they/he, a lanky person with dark hair, wearing vest robes with a cowl, standing with hands in pockets; Han'ae, ae/aer, a tall muscular soldier with dark hair in a bun, dressed in tactical gear and standing with crossed arms; Rose, she/her, a tall thin woman with light wavy hair pulled back, wearing a dress with a slit up the front, smiling and relaxed; and Pallor, zie/she, a short thin person with straight black hair in a bob, wearing a bolero jacket and high-waisted pants, standing with hands on hir hips. The drawing is done in black and white with lined hatching for most of the shading.]

ready for duty!

my new scum & villainy campaign (aka Choir) starts in full swing this friday! so to celebrate, here's the crew of invariant ship designation brevity, ready for their first job. they're just a few extremely loyal (for now :)))))) representatives of the evil empire. i'm sure they won't cause any problems at all!

[wyrtig]

trying something new

[katiifaye]

“Together?”

“Together.”

Lee and Annie walking into the Fête of the Fourth Order from Flamefall, chapter 7. I know it's in the evening but I love sun rays so 💁‍♀️🌟

the Fireborne fanart continues....

Annie sur Aela x Lee sur Pallor

It's also on insta

[fieriframes]

[What they created was a family story no one will tell. It's a photo album too terrible. But the pride and the pallor continue to swell. As the matron silently prays.]

[luminousdryad]

I feel like The Aurelian Cycle's obscurity in comparison to other dragon-related YA books (*cough* a certain romantasy whose sequel just recently came out *cough*) is partly because it's not heavy on the romance at all, the author almost never describes the more romantic scenes in detail, it's more focused on the nature of the relationships and how the charactere reflect on it

I mean, think about the tropes in Fourth Wing. Enemies to lovers where one's parent killed the other's. War college. Dragonrider military. Politics. The regime hiding secrets. All of these are present in The Aurelian Cycle, albeit with much, much better execution.

Fireborne did start slow, but I feel like that benefited the story. We're introduced to the status quo and established the world–this series is heavy on politics and questioning the government, less so on action and death.

The tropes are present, but not how most mainstream YA normally does them. It's not their lives at stake, it's their freedom, their identity, their values. It understands that death does not necessarily raise the stakes; they could lose more than that. Annie and Lee in technicality are enemies turned friends to lovers, but there's layers to their relationship. Even Power, the bully character, has layers. The Guardian school simultaneously gave and stripped them of freedom, instead of being straightfoward good or evil. It's all complicated, but it all works together to serve the theme of trying. "The point is trying."

I'm upset the series has ended, but I look forward to more of Rosaria Munda's work!

[allaboardthexwing]

its just some of my faves from Fireborne, the first book of the Aurelian Cycle

[crownedpatriot11]

Not be a gay homosexual or anything but I started a skincare routine and it’s working.

[maxknightley]

fuuuuuuuck shiiiiiiiit it's passover soon which means I gotta haul my ass out to a sufficiently Jewish neighborhood and buy some matzo.

feeling deeply unenthused about it for reasons best described as "when you feel like you're metaphorically Back In Egypt it's pretty hard to get enthusiastic about Not Being In Egypt"

[lichfucker]

[image description expanded from alt text: two digital drawings of Moment's Pallor from the shoulders up, glancing to the left with a neutral expression. Moment's Pallor (she/zie) is a thin southeast Asian woman with brown skin, dark eyes, and black hair worn in a sleek asymmetrical bob that's shaved on one side. Pallor is wearing a black and red cutout shirt and one dangly moth wing earring. in the first drawing zie is also wearing a pair of glasses with red lenses that are pointed in the outer corners in a sort of abstract geometric wing shape; the second drawing is exactly the same as the first but she's not wearing her glasses. the art is drawn with textured red line art, chunky shading, and bright cyan highlighting. the background is a cyan to red gradient. end id]

new campaign, new babygirl: sci-fi edition

pallor is an ai programmer who was executed by the government for trying to liberate a giant space moth. the government then resurrected hir using the space moth dna, and somehow did not foresee that it would only make her more mothy

(her earrings and her color scheme are based on the scarlet-bodied wasp moth. look them up, they're very pretty)

[raedear]

~~~guess who didn't faint in the shower~~~

[hazyange1s]

I’m sure this has already been talked about ad nauseam… but I can’t stop giggling at the fact that the writers really made best friends with the last names Sallow and Gaunt (that both look perpetually tired).

[ars-ceratinus]

Self Portrait Aug. 2024